A daily journal.
Mainly introducing wild birds of Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, through photos.

海岸でハシブトアジサシ、オオメダイチドリなど

ハシブトアジサシが飛来していました。 先日の幼鳥 に続き今季2羽目です。

海岸のチドリたちも数を減らしていますが、オオメダイチドリやメダイチドリ、ムナグロ、シロチドリなどがいます。シギはキョウジョシギとキアシシギ、チュウシャクシギなどが少々。数は少ないながらも楽しめます。

Lesser Crested Tern

At first glance it looks like an adult, but this is a Lesser Crested Tern in first-winter plumage.

Greater Sand Plover

Greater Sand Plover, first-winter plumage.

Lesser Sand Plover

Lesser Sand Plovers were having a battle. Both are in winter plumage, but the individual in the foreground is the type without a white frontal bar, while the one in the background has a frontal bar.

Kentish Plover

Kentish Plover, first-winter. Small and cute. ^^

Grey-tailed Tattler

Grey-tailed Tattler, adult. Moulting from breeding to non-breeding plumage.

Ruddy Turnstone

Ruddy Turnstone, adult. Moulting into non-breeding plumage.

Pacific Golden Plover

Pacific Golden Plover, adult. Moulting from breeding to non-breeding plumage.

Categories: 野鳥